On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 15:27 -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> > The compiler error is:
> > /usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h::131:9: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'bt_get_le64(void*)::<anonymous struct>*'
> > ...
> >
> > The reason is that C++, in contrast to C, does not allow conversion of
> > void * to anything, and this code gets compiled as C++ when the app is
> > written in C++. The macro with the assignment itself is older, but only
> > recent Bluez starts to use it in inline functions, thus triggering the
> > problem.
> >
> > This patch keeps the "struct __attribute__((packed))" magic and merely
> > changes the typecast so that it works in C and C++. Like the existing
> > macro this patch relies on support for typeof.
>
> so I am applying this patch now, but I still have no idea what kind of
> stupid C++ compiler you are using.
The default g++ as used by affected distros.
> The section of this include is
> clearly marked as C code:
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" {
> #endif
That doesn't mean that the C++ compiler falls back to C mode. It merely
uses C names for the symbols in that section.
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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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